WRI122 – 16412: College Composition Il Written Reasoning as a Process of Argument Department of English, Composition Program College of Arts and Humanities, University of Oregon COURSE SYLLABUS –Fall 2020 “You are growing into consciousnesses, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to restrict yourself to make other people feel comfortable.” (Coates, Between the World and Me 107-8) ​ ​ ______Instructor: Madhura “Madhu” Nadarajah (she/her/hers) ​ Email: [email protected] (please give me 48 hours to respond before emailing ​ ​ ​ me again // my email preference is through Canvas, not Webmail) Synchronous Class Meeting: Monday (no live class, work due Mondays on Canvas) ​ Wednesday - Live Zoom Class (8:15AM-9:45AM) Credit Hours: 4 Hours ​ Remote Office Hours: M/W 10AM-11:30AM ​ ​ -Zoom Video Conference// Zoom Passcode: 5318758021 -I can also chat with you through Canvas Chat, just email me to let me know. **If you would like to set up an appointment outside my office hours, please email me 24hours prior to expected time, but keep in mind no guarantees can be made.**

Note About WR 122 Remote Instruction: Synchronous Instruction Hello Team! I am excited to work with you all this Fall Term. I want to express my gratitude for your commitment to continue with this course during this rapidly changing situation. As you are all probably aware by now, our WR 122 class will be held ​ remotely with having 50% of our class being held synchronously. What this means ​ for our class MW is that on Mondays, there are no Zoom meetings, but you will ​ have powerpoints to review, readings to complete, and a discussion board due on Canvas by the end of every Monday. Please note that sometimes I will also ​ upload video lectures or podcasts to accompany the powerpoint lecture for the Monday class, but not always. We will have LIVE ZOOM CLASSES only on WEDNESDAYS ​ (8:15AM-9:45AM) beginning from Sept. 30. The Zoom passcode is: 5318758021 ​ ​ ​

______Despite the challenges we are all facing together, I am committed to delivering a consistent, inclusive, and quality remote learning experience this term. Our class will communicate through our Canvas site. Announcements and emails are archived there and automatically forwarded to your UO email. Check and adjust your Canvas ​ notifications setting under Account -> Notifications.

Course Description Welcome to WRI 122! You may be wondering, what is WRI122, how is it different from 121, and will two required composition classes help me? Well, to begin, WRI122 is an extension not a repetition of WRI 121. We are going to explore a variety of complex, ​ ​ ​ difficult, and important issues by using critical reading skills, engaging in thoughtful discussions, and writing essays that demonstrate the power of discourse across non-traditional archives.

WRI122 Learning Outcomes In WR122, students can expect to deepen their understanding of WR122 outcomes through focused study of writing as a process of inquiry, learning, and expression within a particular discipline, profession, or more specific discourse community. Students will:

1. cultivate a deep understanding of multiple perspectives using sustained ethical inquiry by: a. identifying and analyzing the shape argument can take in relation to audience, purpose, and context through rhetorical reading of a variety of texts; b. composing texts that demonstrate an understanding of writing as rhetorical and argument as inquiry; 2. identify and describe rhetorical features and areas for improvement in their peers' writing; 3. practice revising multiple drafts based on feedback from peers and instructor and develop strategies for future independent revision processes; 4. identify and critically apply style conventions for writing in an academic context. Required Textbook Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates ​ Between the World and Me is a poignant work that reckons with topics like racism, white supremacy, the ​ vulnerability of blackness in America, death, hopelessness, forgiveness, rage, and love. These are by no means easy concepts to grapple with but that doesn’t mean these issues don’t exist.

E-Handbook(s) Reading, Reasoning, and Writing - James Crosswhite - PDF will be posted on Canvas ​ Purdue OWL (https://owl.purdue.edu) ​ ​ ​ UNC Writing Center (https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/) ​ ​ Writing for Success (https://open.lib.umn.edu/writingforsuccess/) ​ ​ ​ ● Note: Does not reflect MLA8. Refer to Purdue OWL for citation ​ ​ information. Inclusive Learning Statement Your success in this class is important to me. We will all need accommodations because we all learn differently. If there are aspects of this course that prevent you from learning or exclude you, please let me know as soon as possible. Together we’ll develop strategies to meet both your needs and the requirements of the course.

I encourage you to visit the Accessible Education Center (AEC) to determine how you could improve your learning as well. If you need official accommodations, you have a right to have these met. There is a range of resources on campus, including the following:

● Office of Academic Advising (101 Oregon Hall at 541-346-3211 or [email protected]) ​ ● Accessible Education Center (164 Oregon Hall at 541-346-1155 or [email protected]) ​ th ● Tutoring and Academic Engagement Center (4 ​ floor of the Knight Library at ​ 541-346-3226 or [email protected]) ​ ​ ● Division of Equity and Inclusion (Johnson Hall at 541-346-3175 or [email protected]) ​

Composition Program Values The policies for the Composition Program are available here https://composition.uoregon.edu/program-policies/. Conformance with these policies is ​ mandatory for students enrolled in a composition course at UO.

Basic Needs You have a right to food and shelter. Any student who has difficulty affording groceries or accessing sufficient food to eat every day, or who lacks a safe and stable place to live, and believes this may affect their performance in the course, is urged to contact the Dean of Students Office (346-3216, 164 Oregon Hall) for support. Furthermore, if you are comfortable doing so, please let me know about your situation so I can help point you in the right direction for assistance.

Email Policy In this class our official mode of communication outside of class is through email/announcements. Please use your University of Oregon email. I will ignore email sent from non-UO email accounts. All communication between student and instructor and between student and student should be respectful and professional. Please email me through Canvas.

Plagiarism/Misuse of Sources Plagiarism and/or misuse of sources is unacceptable in my class. If I suspect a student of engaging in either behavior, I will have to report it. Always write ethically not only in my class but in your other classes as well.

Late Work Each assignment will have its own late work policy laid out.. My late work policy is not intended to irritate you. The late work policies are set in place because after a certain date, an assignment no longer serves a purpose and I rather you work on the new assignment on deck. If there is an extenuating circumstance going on please come talk to me to see if it is a matter we can work out.

Tutoring Services University of Oregon offers incredible FREE tutoring services for our writing courses. The tutors have been trained to help students with the writing process of WRI 122. I highly encourage everyone to make an appointment with the tutoring center sometime during the term. Please come talk to me if you have any questions. The tutoring services are free. The tutors are located in rooms 350 and 351 in Tykeson Hall. The link to access the tutoring services is found below. https://wr121tutor.uoregon.edu/home

Pronouns Please let me know which pronouns you go by if you so choose. No matter what, I will always make it a point to remember your name and/or nickname

Attendance Policy - Please Read Carefully With everything going on currently, I cannot, nor do I want to, force an attendance policy that will directly influence your grade. In other words, I do not want to “punish” you for not showing up for the Wednesday live Zoom classes. However, I do want to stress the importance of those live sessions. Between the World and Me is a crucial text that ​ ​ directly talks about race, racism, blackness, whiteness, vulnerability, death, trauma, love, pain, movement, redemption, and rage. These are difficult topics and issues that exist around us. I would like for us to engage in thoughtful discussions of these topics that converses with Coates’ text, the other critical texts we’ll touch on, and of course our own hiSTORIES.

Grade Breakdown

Essay Cycle 1 35% Essay Proposal 1 10% Essay 1.1 and 1.2 25% Essay Cycle 2 45% Essay Proposal 2 10% Essay 2.1 and 2.2 35%

Discussion Board Posts 15% Final Portfolio (initial reflection, final reflection, 5 % ​ copy of either 1.2 or 2.2)

Important Dates: 10/03: Last Day to Drop Classes w/o “W” 10/05: Last Day to Add/Drop Classes 11/15: Last Day to Withdraw from Classes

Tentative Course Calendar

Week Day Lecture Reading Due Writing/HW Due

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W 9/30 “A Letter to My Nephew” by Class Introductions James Baldwin BTWM (https://progressive.org/magazi Initial Reflection Due ​ ne/letter-nephew/) Friday 10/02 11:59PM ​

“How the Word ‘Woke’ Was Hijacked to Silence People of Color” https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/27 /word-woke-became-tool-silen ce-people-colour-12426214/

Gill Scott Heron “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” (https://www.youtube.com/wat ​ ch?v=BS3QOtbW4m0) ​

Week Day Lecture Reading Due Writing/HW Due

10/5 BTWM beginning - 39 ​ 2 Discussion Board 1 Due Reading Practices Sympathetic and Critical Monday 10/5 by Reading and Question at Issue 11:59PM Question at Issue RRW (Optional) ​

10/7 Macklemore and Ryan Lewis “What is the American “White Privilege II” Dream” (YouTube)

Lauryn Hill “Black Rage” (YouTube)

Day Lecture Reading Due Writing/HW Due Week

10/12 3 Enthymemes and BTWM 39-64 Discussion Board 2 Due ​ Narrowing Topics Monday 10/12 by Enthymeme Reading RRW 11:59PM ​ (Optional)

10/14 Essay Proposal 1 Due Non-Traditional Friday 10/16 by Archives and Literacy 11:59PM Narratives

Week Day Lecture Reading Due Writing/HW Due

10/19 Writing Workshop: BTWM 64-92 ​ 4 Placing Voices in Discussion Board 3 Conversation

10/21 TBD Mecca Essay 1.1 Due Friday 10/23 by 11:59PM

Week Day Lecture Reading Due Writing/HW Due

10/26 BTWM 92-132 ​ 5 Revising Workshop: Discussion Board 4 Style & Structure

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10/28 TBD “You exist. You matter...You have every Essay 1.2 Due Friday right to wear a hoodie. 10/30 by 11:59PM

Week Day Lecture Reading Due Writing/HW Due

11/2 TBD 6 Discussion Board 5 American Democracy?

11/4 TBD Post-Election...

Week Day Lecture Reading Due Writing/HW Due

11/9 TBD Discussion Board 6 7 Writing Workshop: Quotes

11/11 TBD When Does Personal History Become Essay Proposal 2 Due Anecdotal and Weaken Friday (11/13) by Arguments? 11:59PM

Day Lecture Reading Due Writing/HW Due Week

11/16 TBD 8 Writing Workshop: Counter Argument

11/18 TBD TBD 2.1 Essay Due

Week Day Lecture Reading Due Writing/HW Due

11/23 TBD 9 TBD

11/25 TBD TBD ENJOY THANKSGIVING BREAK!

Week Day Lecture Reading Due Writing/HW Due

11/30 TBD 10 Writing Workshop: Revision

12/02 TBD TBD 2.2 Essay Due Friday 12/04 by 11:59PM

FINALS WEEK: NO MEETING FINAL PORTFOLIO DUE: MONDAY 12/07 BY 11:59PM